All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," ...

Small Stem Assay Method Instructions. American chestnut test for enhanced blight resistance. From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called ...

Before the blight, the American chestnut was the dominant tree in hardwood forests from Maine to Missouri and Mississippi. A mature tree in a favorable location in a well-watered upland valley of ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a ...

WASHINGTON—More than a century after blight decimated the American chestnut tree, the U.S. government is weighing whether to allow a genetically engineered version to spread in the wild.

The lesser-known American Chestnut Cooperators’ Foundation, based near Blacksburg and affiliated with Virginia Tech, has worked since the 1970s to breed naturally resistant, pure American chestnuts.

American chestnut trees once covered the state of West Virginia, providing essential materials and feeding its residents, but in the early 20th century, they were nearly wiped from existence.

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In 2021, he was in for a shock. “We were quite surprised to see that since 1977, the forest had changed dramatically,” Karban says. Most of the mature chestnut trees had vanished — the victim of ...

The chestnut blight is a fungus accidentally brought to North America on imported Asiatic trees in the late 1800s, and it’s devastated our wild American species, rendering it functionally extinct.